Copilot will be “available when you need it and out of the way when you don’t.” | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge
Today, Microsoft announced a new unified Copilot experience in Windows 11, launching on September 26th. The new “everyday AI companion,” now called Microsoft Copilot in Windows, will be “seamlessly available across all the apps and experiences you use most,” including the Windows 11 desktop, Microsoft 365, Outlook, the Edge browser, and (uh) Bing.
During the event, Yusuf Mehdi, consumer chief marketing officer, called Copilot “a handshake between you and technology — available when you need it and out of the way when you don’t.”
In a post announcing Copilot on Microsoft’s website, Mehdi wrote:
Copilot will uniquely incorporate the context and intelligence of the web, your work data and what you are doing in the moment on your PC to…